Carabiner with an illuminator

ABSTRACT

The carabiner with an illuminator mainly is provided in a main body of the carabiner with a receiving chamber to receive sequentially therein an elastic element, a pushing member and an illuminating set. A rotating member is provided on the opening of the receiving chamber, when the rotating member on the opening is rotated, it makes different displacement of the illuminating set in the receiving chamber in pursuance of the depth of screwing up onto the opening. By pressing of the pushing member on the illuminating set, the illuminating set can get the effect of connecting or breaking of an electric circuit, thereby turning on/off of the illuminating set can be controlled, and thus an effect of illumination of the main body of the carabiner can be attained.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention

[0002] The present invention is related to a carabiner with anilluminator, and especially to a carabiner with an illuminator of whichthe carabiner has a receiving chamber for receiving therein anilluminating set, an elastic element and a pushing member, for thepurpose of forming the carabiner with an illuminator providing an effectof illumination.

[0003] 2. Description of the Prior Art

[0004] A U.S. patent application with a Ser. No. of 10/284,261 filed bythe inventor of the present invention on Oct. 31, 2002 before the PTO ofU.S.A. claiming a “Carabiner” which is formed in a main body of thecarabiner a receiving chamber to receive therein an electricallyconductive elastic element, a battery assembly is placed in thereceiving chamber in the main body in sequence, and a lamp cap isscrewed up onto the opening of the receiving chamber, the depth ofscrewing up onto the opening determines displacement of the lamp caprelative to the main body to control illumination/extinguishment of alamp bulb.

[0005] The main body of the carabiner is made of metal with goodelectric conductivity, by the good electric conductivity, the lamp capcan get the function of controlling illumination/extinguishment of thelamp bulb because of the electric connecting among the electricallyconductive elastic element, the battery assembly and the main body ofthe carabiner.

[0006] Such a “Carabiner” thereby gets the function of controlling ofillumination and extinguishment of the lamp bulb mainly by the goodconductivity of the main body of the carabiner that makes electriccurrent conduction with the battery assembly and the electricallyconductive elastic element.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0007] In view that electric conduction for making illumination andextinguishment of the abovementioned “Carabiner” is limited to the factthat it can only be effected by means of the main body of the carabiner,and for the purpose of providing an carabiner with an illuminator thatcan provide the effect of electric conduction by means of anilluminating set, the inventor of the present invention developed thecarabiner with an illuminator based on his professional experience ofyears in studying, designing and manufacturing same kind of products andafter hard study, developing, as well as repeated experiments and tests.

[0008] Therefore, the carabiner with an illuminator of the presentinvention mainly is provided in a main body of the carabiner with areceiving chamber to receive sequentially therein an elastic element, apushing member and an illuminating set. The pushing member is providedon the bottom in the receiving chamber; the main body of the carabineris made of material with no electric conductivity, and has a rotatingmember provided on and locked onto the opening of the front end of thereceiving chamber, thereby when the rotating member on the opening isrotated, it makes displacement of the illuminating set in the receivingchamber. Therefore, by press abutting of the pushing member on theilluminating set, turning on/off of the illuminating set can becontrolled, and thus illumination/extinguishment of a lamp bulb can becontrolled too.

[0009] The object of the present invention is: by press abutting actionof the pushing member on the illuminating set, turning on/off of thelamp bulb on the illuminating set can be controlled, and thusillumination/extinguishment of a lamp bulb can be controlled withouttransmitting via the main body of the carabiner.

[0010] The present invention will be apparent in its content and effectsafter reading the detailed description of the preferred embodimentthereof in reference to the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0011]FIG. 1 is an analytic perspective view showing the elements of thepresent invention;

[0012]FIG. 2 is an analytic perspective view showing the elements of anilluminating set of the present invention;

[0013]FIG. 3 is a first sectional schematic view of the presentinvention;

[0014]FIG. 4 is a second sectional schematic view of the presentinvention;

[0015]FIG. 5 is a sectional view of another embodiment of the presentinvention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

[0016] Referring firstly to FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, the carabiner with anilluminator of the present invention comprises a main body of thecarabiner 10, a pushing member 20, an elastic element 30, anilluminating set 40 and a lamp cap 50.

[0017] Wherein the carabiner main-body 10 is made of material with noelectric conductivity (such as plastic), it includes a shank 11 and twomutually opposite bended rod-portions 111, 112 integrally formed on thetwo ends of the shank 11, the two bended rod-portions 111, 112 formtherebetween an opening 113. The end of the bended rod-portion 111 isprovided with a pivotally connected engaging member 12 for locking toengage with the other bended rod-portion 112 to make closing of theopening 113. The above stated structure of the carabiner belongs to theprior art and is not the key matter of the present invention; it willnot be further narrated hereinafter. The carabiner main-body 10 isprovided in its shank 11 on an end thereof remote from the bendedrod-portion 111 with a receiving chamber 13; the receiving chamber 13has a bottom surface 131, and a peripheral inner wall 132 as well as areceiving mouth 133 both perpendicular to the bottom surface 131. Theshank 11 has on the external wall thereof near to the receiving mouth133 a connecting portion 134 (it is depicted as an external thread inthe present invention).

[0018] The pushing member 20 has a sectional area slightly smaller thanthat of the receiving mouth 133 of the receiving chamber 13 and can bereceived in the receiving chamber 13, one end of it is abutted on thebottom surface 131 of the receiving chamber 13, while the other end isprovided with a pusher rod 21.

[0019] The elastic element 30 has a sectional area slightly smaller thanthat of the receiving chamber 13 and can be received in the receivingchamber 13; one end of it is extended over the pusher rod 21 to abut onthe end face of the pushing member 20.

[0020] The illuminating set 40 (referring to FIG. 2) is received in thereceiving chamber 13 with one end thereof pressing against the elasticelement 30. The illuminating set 40 further has a housing 41, a batteryassembly 42, an electrically conducting sheet 43 and a lamp bulb 44. Thehousing 41 is a hollow pipe, the battery assembly 42 is received therein(in the present invention, there are a plurality of batteries providedin series); the external wall of the housing 41 has a slit 411 toreceive the electrically conducting sheet 43. The electricallyconducting sheet 43 is provided on an end in confronted with the batteryassembly 42 with a press-abutting piece 431; while is connected on theother end with a pin of the lamp bulb 44. The lamp bulb 44 is providedexteriorly of the housing 41 with this pin thereof connected with theelectrically conducting sheet 43, the other pin thereof is connectedwith the battery assembly 42.

[0021] The lamp cap 50 is a hollow cover, of which one end is providedwith a connecting portion 51 (it is depicted as an internal thread inthe present invention) in correspondence with the connecting portion 134of the carabiner main-body 10, so that it can be locked on the end ofthe receiving mouth 133 of the carabiner main-body 10; and the lamp cap50 can allow the lamp bulb 44 of the illuminating set 40 to extendtherein.

[0022] When in assembling, the pushing member 20 is firstly pushed intothe receiving chamber 13 of the shank 11 to abut the pushing member 20on the bottom surface 131 of the receiving chamber 13; and then theelastic element 30 and the illuminating set 40 are extended into thereceiving chamber 13 to make the elastic element 30 extend over thepusher rod 21 of the pushing member 20 to abut on the end face of thepushing member 20. The end of the illuminating set 40 with thepress-abutting piece 431 is abutted against the top end of the elasticelement 30. Lastly, the lamp cap 50 is screw connected via itsconnecting portion 51 to the connecting portion 134 of the carabinermain-body 10, thus the assembling is completed.

[0023] As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 showing the lamp cap 50 is screwconnected to the front end of the connecting portion 134 of thecarabiner main-body 10, in the sectional view of FIGS. 3, the lamp bulb44 has not yet been lightened. At this time, the illuminating set 40 ispressed by the elastic force of the elastic element 30 to make thepress-abutting piece 431 not contact with the battery assembly 42; inthis mode, the positive and negative electrodes of the lamp bulb 44 areunable to be electric connected, thereby the lamp bulb 44 is notlightened.

[0024] The lamp cap 50 is screwed in toward the carabiner main-body 10to make the illuminating set 40 move along with the lamp cap 50 towardthe interior of the receiving chamber 13; so that the illuminating set40 presses inwardly against the elastic element 30 to render the pusherrod 21 of the pushing member 20 to push the press-abutting piece 431toward the battery assembly 42. The press-abutting piece 431 thuspresses against the battery assembly 42. At this time, the positive andnegative electrodes of the lamp bulb 44 are electric connected with thepositive and negative electrodes of the battery assembly 42 to makelightening of the lamp bulb 44, thereby the carabiner with anilluminator with an effect of illumination is formed.

[0025] In practicing the present invention, the carabiner main-body 10and the pushing member 20 can also be made of metal with electricconductivity, so that one pin of the lamp bulb 44 can surely contactwith the pusher rod 21 of the pushing member 20 to effectively get theobject of electric conduction of the lamp bulb 44.

[0026] Referring firstly to FIG. 5 showing another embodiment of thepresent invention, as is shown, the illuminating set 40 is composed ofthe housing 41, the battery assembly 42 and the lamp bulb 44, while thecarabiner main-body 10 and the pushing member 20 are made of metal withelectric conductivity. The pusher rod 21 of the pushing member 20 isdirectly pressed against the rear end of the battery assembly 42, thetwo pins of the lamp bulb 44 are respectively connected with the otherend of the battery assembly 42 and the surrounding wall of the receivingchamber 13; so that when the pushing member 20 is pressed against therear end of the battery assembly 42, by the electric conductivity of thesurrounding wall of the receiving chamber 13, the two pins of the lampbulb 44 are electrically connected with the battery assembly 42 tolighten the lamp bulb 44.

[0027] The names of the members composing the present invention are onlyfor illustrating the technique of the present invention, and not forgiving any limitation to the scope of the present invention. It will beapparent to those skilled in this art that various equivalentmodifications or changes made to the elements of the present inventionwithout departing from the spirit shall fall within the scope of theappended claims.

1. A carabiner with an illuminator, said carabiner comprises: acarabiner main-body made of material with no electric conductivity,being provided with a receiving chamber, said receiving chamber having areceiving mouth being formed thereon a connecting portion; a pushingmember made of material with no electric conductivity, being provided ona bottom surface of said receiving chamber and provided with a pusherrod; an elastic element being extended over said pusher rod of saidpushing member; an illuminating set further having a housing, a batteryassembly, a lamp bulb and an electrically conducting sheet, said housingreceiving therein said battery assembly, said lamp bulb being providedon the front end of said housing, two pins of said lamp bulb beingrespectively connected with said battery assembly and said electricallyconducting sheet which is provided exteriorly of said housing and isprovided on an end thereof with a press-abutting piece between saidbattery assembly and said pusher rod; a lamp cap provided with aconnecting portion to be locked on said connecting portion of saidcarabiner main-body, so that said lamp bulb being adapted to extendingtherein.
 2. The carabiner with an illuminator as in claim 1, wherein:said connecting portion on said receiving chamber is an external thread,while said connecting portion on said lamp cap is an internal thread. 3.The carabiner with an illuminator as in claim 1, wherein: said batteryassembly is composed of a plurality of batteries connected in series. 4.The carabiner with an illuminator as in claim 1, wherein: said carabinermain-body includes a shank and two mutually opposite bendedrod-portions, said two bended rod-portions form therebetween an opening,said receiving chamber is provided on one end of said shank, one end ofsaid bended rod-portion is provided with a pivotally connected engagingmember for closing of said opening.
 5. The carabiner with an illuminatoras in claim 1, wherein: said housing of said illuminating set is made ofmaterial with no electric conductivity.
 6. The carabiner with anilluminator as in claim 1, wherein: said housing of said illuminatingset is made of material with electric conductivity.
 7. A carabiner withan illuminator, said carabiner comprises: a carabiner main-body made ofmaterial with electric conductivity, being provided with a receivingchamber, said receiving chamber having a receiving mouth being formedthereon a connecting portion; a pushing member made of material withelectric conductivity, being provided on a bottom surface of saidreceiving chamber and provided with a pusher rod; an elastic elementbeing extended over said pusher rod of said pushing member; anilluminating set further having a housing, a battery assembly and a lampbulb, said housing receiving therein said battery assembly, said lampbulb being provided on the front end of said housing, two pins of saidlamp bulb being respectively connected with said battery assembly and aperipheral inner wall of said receiving chamber, one end of said batteryassembly being pressed against said pusher rod; a lamp cap provided witha connecting portion to be locked on said connecting portion of saidcarabiner main-body, so that said lamp bulb being adapted to extendingtherein.
 8. The carabiner with an illuminator as in claim 7, wherein:said connecting portion on said receiving chamber is an external thread,while said connecting portion on said lamp cap is an internal thread. 9.The carabiner with an illuminator as in claim 7, wherein: said batteryassembly is composed of a plurality of batteries connected in series.10. The carabiner with an illuminator as in claim 7, wherein: saidcarabiner main-body includes a shank and two mutually opposite bendedrod-portions, said two bended rod-portions form therebetween an opening,said receiving chamber is provided on one end of said shank, one end ofsaid bended rod-portion is provided with a pivotally connected engagingmember for closing of said opening.
 11. The carabiner with anilluminator as in claim 7, wherein: said housing of said illuminatingset is made of material with no electric conductivity.
 12. A carabinerwith an illuminator, said carabiner comprises: a carabiner main-bodymade of material with electric conductivity, being provided with areceiving chamber, said receiving chamber having a receiving mouth beingformed thereon a connecting portion; a pushing member made of materialwith electric conductivity, being provided on a bottom surface of saidreceiving chamber and provided with a pusher rod; an elastic elementbeing extended over said pusher rod of said pushing member; anilluminating set further having a housing, a battery assembly and a lampbulb and an electrically conducting sheet, said housing receivingtherein said battery assembly, said lamp bulb being provided on thefront end of said housing, two pins of said lamp bulb being respectivelyconnected with said battery assembly and said electrically conductingsheet which is provided exteriorly of said housing and is provided on anend thereof with a press-abutting piece between said battery assemblyand said pusher rod; a lamp cap provided with a connecting portion to belocked on said connecting portion of said carabiner main-body, so thatsaid lamp bulb being adapted to extending therein.
 13. The carabinerwith an illuminator as in claim 12, wherein: said connecting portion onsaid receiving chamber is an external thread, while said connectingportion on said lamp cap is an internal thread.
 14. The carabiner withan illuminator as in claim 12, wherein: said battery assembly iscomposed of a plurality of batteries connected in series.
 15. Thecarabiner with an illuminator as in claim 12, wherein: said carabinermain-body includes a shank and two mutually opposite bendedrod-portions, said two bended rod-portions form therebetween an opening,said receiving chamber is provided on one end of said shank, one end ofsaid bended rod-portion is provided with a pivotally connected engagingmember for closing of said opening.
 16. The carabiner with anilluminator as in claim 12, wherein: said housing of said illuminatingset is made of material with no electric conductivity.